Ken's right... bathroom's are a must. Twice as many for the women as for men.

If your soundhead has a flywheel..... ALWAYS REMOVE IT BEFORE TRANSPORT!! Learned my lesson on that one. The last time I moved the equipment from the house up to the storage building (1/4 mile away) - I left the flywheel on the soundhead. In less than one minute of travel time from one location to the next, I bent the out of the sound drum shaft on a RCA 9030.

I'd be worried about transporting a 4KW Xenon left mounted in the lamphouse too.

FM Transmitter... If you insist on Ramsey, go with the FM-100 (pre-assembled). Better yet, the Broadcast Warehouse TX-1 transmitter is good too.

If you can keep the rows of parking spaced far enough apart, you "may" be able to do without the ramps, however, the bottom of your screen will have to be at least 10'-12' off the ground.

Always emphasize the speed and quality of the food you are serving. Remember, a drive-in theatre is REALLY a fast-food restaurant with a limited menu, limited operating hours, that also happens to show movies in the parking lot.

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Barry Floyd
Floyd Entertainment Group
Nashville, Tennessee
(Drive-In Theatre - Start-Up)

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An arc lamp is the most efficient method of illuminating even a moderate sized screen. Also, standard SMPTE 196M specifies "the light reflected from the screen in theaters shall have a spectral distribution approximating that of a blackbody at a color temperature of 5400 K +600 K -200 K, the use of short-arc xenon light sources being assumed." Tungsten halogen lamps have a much lower (yellower) color temperature.

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The company also sets up in wineries and parks for outdoor walk-ins.

We use a Vic 5 with 4000 lamphouse, 3K lamp. Strong Switch mode
3ph rectifier. Portable single sided tower that splits in two and sits on a simple base. We use an FM transmitter for Drive-In or 4 JBL units 1600w total amp power. At present we broadcast and play in Left & Right only via a simple mixerdesk providing EQ. We will be moving to a Dolby processor in time allowing us to have four track for the non Drive-In shows. Two generators, provided locally, provide power for the projection van and at the screen end.

Depending on the setup we either transmit to the screen and amplify from there or hard wire from the projection van. The screen requires a Bouncy-Castle type fan to be running at all times.

Four water filled ballast tanks are needed to secure the screen. These are normally filled by the local fire department on the morning of the shows.

All in all the equipment and screen can be setup and running in about 90 min. Breaking down takes under an hour. It all fits into a luton van. A minimum of four people are required for the setup/break down of the screen.

The last hire we serviced was for screen only in Trafalgar Square London. Very impressive it looked too.... what a location.

This is a side view taking in one of the fountains....

I have another two hires over the next couple of weeks and will take some pictures of the equipment van. Anyone interested let me know.

Regards Ken

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